GLOBAL: WEAPONS PROLIFERATION Dec 19 2002 Iraq Report Documents Foreign Support For Weapons Programs

Hewlett Packard, Dupont, Honeywell and other major U.S. corporations, as well as governmental agencies including the Department of Defense and the nation's nuclear labs, and numerous companies from other countries, all helped Iraq to build its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs, according to Iraq's 12,000-page weapons declaration to the UN. This information was contained in the nearly 9000 pages removed by the United States before the report was circulated to the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. The nuclear support under Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr., violated non-proliferation treaties.
Read: entire feature | Democracy Now! coverage including an interview with the Geneva-based reporter who broke the story and translations of original German stories.


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